Making Fields Of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics And Gendered Orders In Thailand

Book Summary


Presents a unique ethnography of the Thai Buddhist nuns, examines what it implies to be a female ascetic in contemporary Thailand, and analyses how the ordained state for women fits into the wider gender patterns found in Thai society.

Book Details


Book Name Making Fields Of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics And Gendered Orders In Thailand
Author Monica Lindberg Falk
Publisher University Of Washington Press (Apr 2008)
ISBN 9780295987262
Pages 283
Language English
Price 1906
 
 

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